Tag:Chinatown
It’s trickier to find the bird sitting on the wire in this image than the two caged birds in the image I posted yesterday, but it’s there. You might need to click on the image to go over to my Smugmug version and enlarge from there.
There are two birds sitting in a cage outside one of the windows here – actually there’s a second cage but I can’t see how many birds are in that one. There’s also an electric desk fan hung outside one of the windows to provide a drying breeze in case mother nature decides not to. The ragged tarpaulins and corrugated iron sheets enclose a produce/grocery store.
A young man walks down the street accompanied by his mother. They pass workers having lunch in the cafe’s. They’re forced to walk in the road because the sidewalk was seized long ago by the cafe and store owners to expand their mini empires.
I’ve no idea where yesterday’s photo was taken but I know that today’s photo shows part of Telok Ayer Street because the street name is on one of the buildings. You won’t find this scene now – these buildings are long gone.
I wondered how much of the brickwork the wooden safety barrier was intended to contain, and even how sturdy the boards were. Would they hold a brick falling from the roof or would it plunge on through the boards and onto the sidewalk below?
Clearly the laundry-pole-out-the-window is a local cultural thing. I wonder what happens if you lose a garment? On a street like Pagoda Street you could probably find it in the street but if it comes off one of those poles from Block 335B, it could almost end up anywhere!
